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former, 95 percent for the latter. This endows with a still greater 

 interest the considerations regarding the admixture among the 

 Kazakhs of the legendary blond race, the Dinlins, found in the Chinese 

 chronicles. 



Aristov '*' states that the history of the Tang Dynasty written in the 

 ninth century on the basis of earlier sources, in connection with a 

 description of the Yenisei Kirghiz, says that "the inhabitants of that 

 land have become mingled with the Dinlins . . . arc generally tall, 

 with red hair and pink faces and blue (green) eyes. . . ." 



According to Aristov, Dinlin admixture may be found among the 

 Tele, Merkit, Kirei, and a Lesser Horde tribe, the Alchin. Judging by 

 the name, the Alasha tribe of the Baiuly group must also be of Dinlin 

 origin. The data on the pigmentation of the Kazakhs at our disposal 

 do not corroborate the supposition of a blond admixture among the 

 Kazakhs. Whatever the case, this problem can be more appropriately 

 examined when we have data regarding the physical type of the eastern 

 Kazakhs and the Kirghiz, among whom, on the basis of historical 

 information, the admixture of the Dinlins was much more probable. 



Stature 



In the great majority of cases the stature was medium or below 

 medium (164.0 for men and 151.0 for women). While the individual 

 range of variation was relatively broad, there was no significant 

 difference between the means obtained for various tribal groups. A 

 somewhat greater stature was found for the men of the Jettru group, 

 which also had women of a somewhat smaller average stature than 

 the average for the other Kazakh groups. The average stature noted 

 by Kharuzin for the men of the Lesser Horde was 162.9, '-^v very 

 close to our figures for the Lesser Horde. Ivanovskii found a mean 

 stature of 165. i for the Kazakhs of the Middle Horde, which is some- 

 what higher than the figure for the Lesser Horde. This may be ex- 

 plained by a higher percentage of the Jettru group among the former. 



Very 



Group No. Ranee Mp.th Short Medium Tall tall 



Baiuly A 132 147.0-178.2 163.68 28.8 30.3 24.2 16.7 



Baiuly K 80 146.6-179.9 163.36 28.7 27.5 30.0 13.8 



.Mimuly 141 146.9-179.4 164.14 25.5 26.2 29.8 18.4 



Jettru 65 1537-178.7 1^570 24.6 2T.5 20.2 24.6 



Kipchak 48 i50-3-i75-9 163.62 2_'i.o 27. r 37.1; 10.4 



Total or mean .. 466 146.9- 179.9 16432 ^'^S 27.0 28.9 17.2 



'^ Aristov, N., Opyt \-yiasncniia etnichcskogo sostava kirgiz-kazakov Bolshoi 

 ordy i kara-kirgizov. Zhivaia Starina, Nos. 3-4, 1894. 



